Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 20 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 138 54 63
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 11.83% 9.89% 12.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.87% 34.39% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 44 48
10th Percentile £402 £315 £250
25th Percentile £476 £378 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £473 £506
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -6.62% -8.00%
75th Percentile £669 £532 £614
90th Percentile £688 £550 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 447 157 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 38.30% 28.75% 34.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 121 114
10th Percentile £361 £306 £216
25th Percentile £431 £388 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £490 £506
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -3.16% -8.23%
75th Percentile £576 £550 £589
90th Percentile £688 £650 £643
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £16.30
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 £18.00
% change year-on-year +6.19% +83.11% -15.31%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +7 134 £530 +12.77% 26
Doncaster - 1 - - 2
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (9.42%) Confluence
2 9 (6.52%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.07%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.45%) Apache
5 2 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.45%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.72%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (49.28%) AWS
2 62 (44.93%) GCP
3 26 (18.84%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (15.22%) GitHub
5 15 (10.87%) Power Platform
6 14 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (7.97%) Entra ID
8 10 (7.25%) OpenShift
9 9 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (5.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.62%) PowerApps
13 4 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (2.90%) Serverless
14 3 (2.17%) Azure Storage
14 3 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 3 (2.17%) OneDrive
14 3 (2.17%) Power Automate
14 3 (2.17%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.52%) Network Security
2 8 (5.80%) SAN
3 4 (2.90%) Firewall
4 3 (2.17%) Kerberos
4 3 (2.17%) NAS
5 2 (1.45%) DNS
5 2 (1.45%) LAN
5 2 (1.45%) Multicast
5 2 (1.45%) VSAN
5 2 (1.45%) WAN
6 1 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.97%) Power BI
3 9 (6.52%) Big Data
4 7 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.90%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.90%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.17%) Neo4j
8 3 (2.17%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.45%) Redis
9 2 (1.45%) Trino
10 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.72%) Metadata
10 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.72%) Parquet
10 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (21.01%) Jenkins
2 20 (14.49%) JIRA
3 12 (8.70%) Git
4 6 (4.35%) GitLab
4 6 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (2.90%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.17%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (2.17%) Fiddler
7 2 (1.45%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.45%) MSBuild
7 2 (1.45%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.45%) Selenium
7 2 (1.45%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.45%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.72%) Gatling
8 1 (0.72%) Gradle
8 1 (0.72%) JMeter
8 1 (0.72%) JUnit
8 1 (0.72%) Newman
8 1 (0.72%) Postman
General
1 50 (36.23%) Finance
2 48 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 22 (15.94%) Banking
4 12 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 6 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.62%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.17%) Law
8 2 (1.45%) Billing
8 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (20.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (15.94%) Architect
2 22 (15.94%) Lead
3 11 (7.97%) Developer
4 8 (5.80%) Cloud Architect
5 7 (5.07%) Data Engineer
5 7 (5.07%) Lead DevOps
5 7 (5.07%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 7 (5.07%) Security Engineer
5 7 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (4.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 6 (4.35%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 6 (4.35%) Consultant
6 6 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (4.35%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (3.62%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 5 (3.62%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.04%) REST
2 9 (6.52%) .NET
3 8 (5.80%) OAuth
3 8 (5.80%) OpenID
4 7 (5.07%) ASP.NET
4 7 (5.07%) Kafka
4 7 (5.07%) SailPoint
5 6 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 6 (4.35%) PySpark
5 6 (4.35%) SAML
6 5 (3.62%) .NET Core
6 5 (3.62%) JSON
6 5 (3.62%) LDAP
6 5 (3.62%) React
6 5 (3.62%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.62%) Web Services
7 4 (2.90%) FIDO
7 4 (2.90%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.17%) SLSA
8 3 (2.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.12%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.42%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (6.52%) Data Centre
4 9 (6.52%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (5.07%) Product Ownership
7 6 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (3.62%) FlexPod
8 5 (3.62%) Public Cloud
8 5 (3.62%) Replication
8 5 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.17%) Blog
9 3 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.17%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.17%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (2.17%) EMC VNX
9 3 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.45%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.87%) Linux
2 8 (5.80%) Data ONTAP
2 8 (5.80%) Windows
3 7 (5.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (5.07%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.35%) CoreOS
4 6 (4.35%) VMS
5 3 (2.17%) AIX
6 1 (0.72%) Android
6 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (49.28%) DevOps
2 65 (47.10%) CI/CD
3 39 (28.26%) Cybersecurity
4 28 (20.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (20.29%) Observability
5 26 (18.84%) DevSecOps
6 25 (18.12%) AI
7 24 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (16.67%) Analytics
9 21 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (14.49%) Agile
11 19 (13.77%) Containerisation
11 19 (13.77%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (13.04%) Data Protection
12 18 (13.04%) Microservices
12 18 (13.04%) Migration
12 18 (13.04%) Test Automation
13 16 (11.59%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 41 (29.71%) Python
2 26 (18.84%) SQL
3 21 (15.22%) Java
4 12 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 9 (6.52%) Bash
6 7 (5.07%) C#
7 6 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.35%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.62%) Groovy
9 4 (2.90%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.17%) Bicep
10 3 (2.17%) Go
11 1 (0.72%) Scala
11 1 (0.72%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (7.25%) Degree
2 9 (6.52%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.35%) CISSP
4 5 (3.62%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.62%) OCP
4 5 (3.62%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (2.90%) CCSP
5 4 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.90%) CISM
5 4 (2.90%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.17%) CCSK
6 3 (2.17%) NCDA
6 3 (2.17%) NCIE
6 3 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.72%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.80%) QA
2 6 (4.35%) NIST
3 5 (3.62%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.17%) GRC
5 2 (1.45%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.45%) GDPR
5 2 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.72%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (18.12%) Docker
2 18 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (5.80%) vSphere
6 7 (5.07%) NFS
7 3 (2.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (2.17%) Hyper-V
7 3 (2.17%) SRDF
7 3 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.72%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.72%) Ceph
8 1 (0.72%) KVM
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 48 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 38 (27.54%) Terraform
3 23 (16.67%) Ansible
4 12 (8.70%) Grafana
4 12 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.80%) SnapMirror
6 5 (3.62%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.90%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (2.17%) Argo
8 3 (2.17%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (1.45%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (1.45%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.45%) SnapVault
9 2 (1.45%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.72%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.72%) Istio
10 1 (0.72%) QRadar
10 1 (0.72%) WMI
Vendors
1 38 (27.54%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.59%) Databricks
3 12 (8.70%) Google
4 10 (7.25%) Red Hat
4 10 (7.25%) VMware
5 8 (5.80%) NetApp
6 7 (5.07%) CyberArk
7 6 (4.35%) Splunk
8 5 (3.62%) OpenAI
9 4 (2.90%) Centrify
9 4 (2.90%) Oracle
9 4 (2.90%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.17%) 3PAR
10 3 (2.17%) Aruba
10 3 (2.17%) Cisco
10 3 (2.17%) Dell
10 3 (2.17%) EMC
10 3 (2.17%) IBM
10 3 (2.17%) Okta
10 3 (2.17%) Veeam